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Following David Cameron’s speech on immigration, much has been made of his comments that the package of measures he proposed to reform EU free movement would require treaty change.In some cases, the speech was ambiguous about what exactly was being pro…

Open Europe’s Raoul Ruparel asks this question over on his Forbes blog, concluding it was probably the correct political choice but that plenty of risks remain in the process. Full post below: The news out of Greece has been improving slightly in the p…

The BIS Basel Committee has today released its assessment of the EU’s (and the USA’s) implementation of the Basel III rules on bank capital and it does not make good reading for the EU. They key findings of the report are (as detailed in the press …

With politics heating up in the frigid Swedish winter we can’t help but get the sense that Europe is turning itself on its head a bit…North becoming South?We warned yesterday that the Swedish government was on the brink of collapse. So it has prove…

Pablo Iglesias with economists Navarro (right) and Torres López (left) With the next general election only one year away, Spain’s anti-establishment party Podemos last week unveiled a revamped package of economic proposals written for them by S…

Polish Europe Minister Rafał Trzaskowski’s comments on Monday’s Newsnight, where he said David Cameron’s plans to stop EU migrants from claiming benefits for the first four years after they arrive in Britain would be a “red line” for Warsaw, were wi…

The dust has settled somewhat after Cameron’s much-anticipated immigration speech. As we set out here, we welcomed the balance the Prime Minister struck and were particularly pleased that he co-opted our proposal to let the principle of free movement…

Jimmie Åkesson is off sick but his party could cause trouble UPDATE (16:30): Anti-immigration Sweden Democrats have just announced that they will vote against the government’s draft budget for 2015 and support the opposition’s budget instead.As t…

Nicolas Sarkozy took a further step on the road to his political comeback over the weekend, as he won back the leadership of France’s centre-right UMP party. The former French President secured 64.5% of votes in an online survey of UMP members, finis…

We’ve laid it out in our response today, but in an attempt to elucidate things we’ll go into a bit more detail in this post. In addition to the general ‘fairness’ discussion – making sure that there’s a link between what people put in and what they…